I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.

The appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how she'll react to things and manipulating her into drawing perverse, horrific things. It's a really weird job but I enjoy it.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?